700 Sundays

2006-10-24 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Billy Crystal
Release : 2006-10-24
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis 700 Sundays by : Billy Crystal

Download or read book 700 Sundays written by Billy Crystal. This book was released on 2006-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To support his family, Billy Crystal's father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. Based on Crystal's one-man Broadway show of the same name, "700 Sundays"--referring sadly to the time shared by an adoring father and his devoted son--offers a heartfelt, hilarious memoir.

Still Foolin' 'Em

2013-09-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Billy Crystal
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Still Foolin' 'Em by : Billy Crystal

Download or read book Still Foolin' 'Em written by Billy Crystal. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career in this New York Times bestseller. Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this milestone age with him. He also looks back at the most powerful and memorable moments of his long and storied life, from entertaining his relatives as a kid in Long Beach, Long Island, his years doing stand-up in the Village, up through his legendary stint at Saturday Night Live, When Harry Met Sally, and his long run as host of the Academy Awards. Readers get a front-row seat to his one-day career with the New York Yankees (he was the first player to ever "test positive for Maalox"), his love affair with Sophia Loren, and his enduring friendships with several of his idols, including Mickey Mantle and Muhammad Ali. He lends a light touch to more serious topics like religion ("the aging friends I know have turned to the Holy Trinity: Advil, bourbon, and Prozac"), grandparenting, and, of course, dentistry. As wise and poignant as they are funny, Crystal's reflections are an unforgettable look at an extraordinary life well lived.

Laugh Lines

2020-04-14 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Alan Zweibel
Release : 2020-04-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Laugh Lines written by Alan Zweibel. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, one of the first writers for Saturday Night Live traces the history of American comedy. Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where he penned classic material for Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and all of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. From SNL, he went on to have a hand in a series of landmark shows—from It’s Garry Shandling’s Show to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Throughout the pages of Laugh Lines Zweibel weaves together his own stories and interviews with his friends and contemporaries, including Richard Lewis, Eric Idle, Bob Saget, Mike Birbiglia, Sarah Silverman, Judd Apatow, Dave Barry, Carl Reiner, and more. The book also features a charming foreword from his friend of forty-five years Billy Crystal, with whom he co-wrote and co-produced the upcoming film Here Today that stars Crystal and Tiffany Haddish. Laugh Lines is a warmhearted cultural memoir of American comedy. “In Laugh Lines, Zweibel looks back, affectionately and informatively, at a career that began when he was a young deli worker grinding out jokes for old-school borscht belt comedians in his spare time, and that, after his “S.N.L.” years, included rewarding collaborations with, among others, Garry Shandling, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Larry David and Dave Barry. . . . Fascinating.” —New York Times “Any comedy fan will thrill to see the contemporary art's invention through the eyes of consummate funny man Alan Zweibel. He takes you behind the velvet rope and makes you weep for all those artists who made us laugh. Screamingly funny—also very moving. A classic.” —Mary Karr “Alan Zweibel is legendary among us comedians. He is the man who delivers comedy with an emotional clout that makes him respected and revered.” —Steve Martin

Absolutely Mahvelous [sic]

1986 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Billy Crystal
Release : 1986
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 469/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Absolutely Mahvelous [sic] written by Billy Crystal. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comedian from "Soap" and "Saturday Night Live" translates his talents into book form, and in over fifty photographs, dons all of his varied guises, from Fernando to Tina Turner

Sundays in August

2017-08-29 Fiction

Author : Patrick Modiano
Release : 2017-08-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 598/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sundays in August by : Patrick Modiano

Download or read book Sundays in August written by Patrick Modiano. This book was released on 2017-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano’s most noirish work to date. Set in Nice—a departure from the author’s more familiar Paris—this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the Riviera. Modiano’s trademark ability to create a haunting atmosphere is here on full display: readers descend precipitously into a world of mystery, uneasiness, inevitability. A young couple in hiding keeps close watch over a notorious diamond necklace known as the Southern Cross. Its provenance is murky, its whereabouts known only to our hero and heroine, who find themselves trapped by its potential value—and its ultimate cost. Deftly Modiano reaches further and further into the past, revealing the secret histories of the two even as the pressurized present threatens to overwhelm them.

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